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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

In Celebration of a Friend--A Faith Post

My buddy, Lisa Sanchez, has just released her newest book in the Hanaford Park series, Faythe Reclaimed. Below is the description and some links for your reading pleasure, as well as a post on faith, in the book's honor, in order to keep you inspired. :) Read, enjoy.

Running through a strange forest with a bloodthirsty demon hot on her heels wasn’t Taylor’s idea of a rockin’ evening. Then again, neither was soaring backward through time and space. Time travel chafed and left a rank, nasty aftertaste. So, when she finds herself floundering amidst a sea of Commandment-loving holy rollers who fling accusations of witchcraft and bedevilment like hotcakes in a diner, finding her way home jumps to the top of her to do list. Too bad she can’t remember who she is or where she came from. And if that wasn’t bad enough, Taylor realizes she’s falling for Gabriel, the mysterious Latin warlock living on the edge of Salem Village, Gabriel Castillo.

Battling an identity crisis and lost in a time that’s not her own, Taylor is determined to find her way back to twenty-first century Hanaford Park. But first, she and Gabriel must work together to uncover the dark scourge lurking in the shadows of Salem Village, and in doing so, save their lives, and the lives of countless innocents from a lethal date with the hangman’s noose.

Lisa Sanchez asked me to write about this topic a while ago in conjunction with the title of her newest release and I said, why sure, what a grand idea. And as I sit here contemplating, I’m thinking what a perfect one it is for me, indeed. Because faith is exactly what I'm relying on right now—well, that and love, but they're both directly connected.

This whole topic sets my wheels in passionate motion. How does faith translate to everyone, regardless of their creed or non creed? And what is it? What’s the substance and purpose of faith? The subject would seem touchy to some because people hear the word “faith” and associate it with religiosity. But faith is spiritual, not religious. It’s an often neglected attribute of the human experience, a sense that everything will work out based upon an inner knowing, a trust or a guidance that emerges from a place we tend to bury under a lot of this life’s false assumptions. The ego, the tangibility, the sound and touch and taste of it all, the brute emotions, the things our parents taught us, the things our educations taught us, the adaptations and mental blocks we’ve created so that, even if we’re standing still, our minds are racing—these get in the way of faith, they impede a universe that speaks to us from the depth of stillness, urging everyone to chill the heck out and listen, because amazing things are finagling the underpinnings of our lives and you should just go with the flow. Faith is hard to have when things aren’t going according to plan, but it’s even more elusive when nothing seems to be happening at all.

I believe that genuine faith is born of love--for yourself, first, and then, as a result, everyone and everything else. Love cannot resist a desire to do good, a search for wisdom which will invariably lead to a personal kind of...here we go again... faith.

Based on enough personal experience to write a book (and I’m thinking about it!), I believe that faith best begins with a willingness to sit still, clam up those thoughts, and listen on a regular basis . (And I don't mean to the traffic outside your window or the white noise on your 50 inch plasma.) Listen with a different set of senses. As cliché as it sounds—listen with your heart. With your instincts. And once you’ve tapped into that ancient wisdom, go ahead and cry and scream and get angry when faced with life’s infuriating mysteries, then release them to something bigger. Trust that there’s so very much more to it than meets the eye.

I've had to do this over and over again. I've done it when my own couldn't handle who I loved. I've done it when, years down the road, my life shifted and the floor once again dropped out from under me and everything I knew, everything that made me feel safe and secure imploded and left me floundering in new waters. I've turned to faith when I wasn't sure who I was anymore, struck with instances of calm in the middle of my own personal storms. It happens every day.

Like me, you'll likely find that you have to take some deep breaths and admit that you don't know what to do anymore--that point when you realize that maybe that's the whole idea. Maybe all you have to know is that you don't know. Maybe all you have to do is stop trying to micromanage the journey, let somebody else handle the tricky parts, and just keep breathing.

Life will shake your bridges, tumble your towers and challenge your sanity. But faith in the bigger picture is where you'll find it again.

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